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It's a nice thought but I think a sportsperson will bear the torch. Probably one of our elder statesmen. an ex olympian most likely. it's just the nature of the event and the organisers. I could imagine davey T's grin being even more insanely huge though if he was picked. a head splitter grin.

It's a nice thought but I think a sportsperson will bear the torch. Probably one of our elder statesmen. an ex olympian most likely. it's just the nature of the event and the organisers. I could imagine davey T's grin being even more insanely huge though if he was picked. a head splitter grin.

Seb Coe is on the organizing committee or something isn't he? If so, that probably wouldn't be proper to be the one to actually light the torch, though he should probably be one of the final torch bearers. Perhaps Daley Thompson, 1984 Olympic decathlon champion.

i was thinking of someone older. a wrinkly crumbly. like maybe someone who was at the games in the 1950's. drag em out of their retirement home and shove them in a sponsored tracksuit and let them pretend to jog through the stadium while actually being manipulated via wires from above. and to distract from the wires a pageant of any other just about still breathing athletes with sporting pedigrees following on behind. while there are dancers in the centre wearing skimpy outfits. the whole RAH RAH GREAT BRITAIN!!!!!!! thing.

haha that sounds so cynical. it's not meant to be it's just a sort of sad recognition that britain isn't posessed of a very forward thinking sort of person where management is concerned. and I expect our ceremonies to be lacking the oomph the games need unless they employ someone like Saatchi and Saatchi to spice things up.

ok i'm back from Liverpool where i braved the ****ing rain to take some video of this thing on the moveI managed to get into a position where the thing was right above me and i almost got squished by one of the legs. just to bring you footage. and none of that cellphone camera rubbish either. my other half took some photos but he's inexperienced and they mostly came out shaky and blurred however there are a couple of stills. I shall be attempting to get the video uploaded somewhere over the weekend if I'm able.